SNP mask is beginning to slip… no one can predict May’s election – Glasgow Times, 25/03/21
OR most of last year the Scottish Parliament elections coming up in May looked like a foregone conclusion.
Poll after poll showed the SNP heading for an outright majority, either on their own or with the support of the Greens. Polling on the constitutional question was similarly buoyant for those of a nationalist bent.
This, of course, was in a political environment where it was almost impossible for any issue other than the Covid pandemic to gain any traction or any serious discussion in the media. Rightly or wrongly, the Scottish Government was perceived to have had a ‘good pandemic’; at least in comparison to Westminster if not our European neighbours.